Session Title
Session Description: Changes in Marine Mammal Occurrence in the Salish Sea
Session Description
Changes in strandings of cetaceans in Puget Sound/Salish Sea
Jessica L. Huggins1, Amanda Warlick2, Stephanie Norman3, Jennifer Olson4, Dyanna M. Lambourn5, Joe Gaydos6, John Calambokidis1
1Cascadia Research Collective
2NOAA Fisheries, Northwest Fisheries Science Center
3Marine-Med: Marine Research, Epidemiology, and Veterinary Medicine
4The Whale Museum
5Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, Marine Mammal Investigations
6SeaDoc Society, UC Davis Wildlife Health Center
Cetacean strandings in the inland waters (Puget Sound/Salish Sea) of Washington State are common and have been systematically recorded in Washington State since the early 1980’s, providing an invaluable dataset with which to track spatiotemporal trends and changes in stranding patterns. These patterns are cyclical but generally increasing (Figure 1). This increase is likely due to a variety of factors, including population increase, emerging diseases, funding for stranding response, and public awareness/ease of reporting. Harbor porpoise and seasonally occurring gray whales are the two most commonly stranded species in inland waters.
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Keywords
Cetaceans, Puget Sound, Salish Sea, Strandings
Conference Track
SSE11: Species and Food Webs
Conference Name
Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference (2018 : Seattle, Wash.)
Document Type
Event
SSEC Identifier
SSE11: Session Description
Start Date
6-4-2018 1:30 PM
End Date
6-4-2018 3:00 PM
Type of Presentation
Oral
Genre/Form
conference proceedings; presentations (communicative events)
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Digital content made available by University Archives, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University.
Subjects – Topical (LCSH)
Cetacea--Stranding--Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.); Whales--Stranding--Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.); Harbor porpoise--Stranding--Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.)
Geographic Coverage
Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.)
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Type
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Language
English
Format
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Changes in Strandings of Cetaceans in Puget Sound/Salish Sea
Comments
This is an extended abstract for the session.